Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In recent months, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage issued a circular allowing HAP residents at risk of homelessness to remain in their homes and the local authority to purchase their homes. This has been broadly welcomed and comes as a relief to many families. However, the implementation of this circular has varied from local authority to local authority. For example, one local authority has used the new initiative but has placed a five-year stipulation on a person's tenure for it to be available to him or her. Another local authority has not availed of the initiative as much as it is already on its way to meeting its social housing targets. Is it about time that the ad hocimplementation of this good initiative was regularised with specific guidance and criteria issued?

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